[Mb-civic] Hemp - The crop with 50,000 commercial uses.

[Peter Fleming]

AMERICA'S PARENTS: A SOCIETY THAT HAS RIGHTEOUSLY
        CRIMINALIZED ITS CHILDREN..made them criminals
 and for what? for choosing a mind altering substance
  less harmful than all the substances parents use!!
 
If you have any concerns about our rarely mentioned,
   Grand Prohibition of hemp, that criminalizes our children, 
      for using the least harmful mind altering substance,
      remember it is not addicting, there is no painful withdrawal 
        as with alcohol and so many illicit and prescriptive drugs.
 
Below, you will read about a wealth of historically proven uses        
of HEMP, this ageless plant throughout time that has been virtually
          removed from our culture
      Now only underworld dealers, rather than the 
        world of legitimate business have the
         government approved license** to sell to kids.
 
**those willing to break the law capture the exclusive privilege
  to grow, market and sell prohibited hemp; it's a virtual license.
 

  We could put all our farmers back to work tomorrow

  We can virtually save the environment repudiating one law. 

 

 

The Marijuana Trick - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
      by Doug Yurchey, 2005


        Talk about propaganda tricks with words........this is one of the
biggest................
         Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the
M-word was created to tarnish the good image 

       and phenomenal history of the hemp plant...as you will read. The
facts cited here, with references, 

      are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia Britannica which was
printed on hemp paper for 150 years: 
      

* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp
Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974. 

* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early
1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981. 

 * REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS
AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp
from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.

 * George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP;
Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China
to France then to America. 

 * Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it
processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted
to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.


 * For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from
hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for hemp; Webster's New World Dictionary. 

 * 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc.
were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.


 * The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp;
U.S. Government Archives. 

 * The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for
Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the
20th Century; State Archives. 

 * Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China,
although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt. 

 * Rembrandts, Gainsborough's, Van Gogh's as well as most early canvas
paintings were principally painted on hemp linen. 

 * In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would
come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government
studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in
the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture 

 * Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937.
58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935;
Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937
Marijuana Tax Act. 

 * Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR
ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed
among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic
panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular
Mechanics, 1941. 

 * Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had
a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb.,
1938. 

 * Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled
'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that
if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single
largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world. 

      The following information comes directly from the United States
Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing
'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the
war effort: 
      '...(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the
service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been
grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For
centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas
were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the
hangman, hemp was indispensable... 
      ...Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands of
the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and Navy as
well as of our industries... 

      ...the Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American
hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow lines; hemp
for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both on ship and shore.
Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her
hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for victory!' 

      Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research of
Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the 1942 USDA
film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist. 
      

      Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA
Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp as wood with
at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. 

      From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938: 
      'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any state...The
long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for
the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the
ground, chokes out weeds. 
      ...hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture
and industry.' 

      In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an
industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could have
created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products. Hemp,
if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great Depression.


      William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper
Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands.
The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather,
a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions
because of hemp. 

      In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and
coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new
petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid,
methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural
hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's business.
       
      THE TRICKS 
      Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's
primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger,
to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. 
      Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was
declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For
their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure
Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of
America. 

      MEDIA MANIPULATION 
      A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and
1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana.
The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was
responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality. 
      Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth'
(1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by
these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public
support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed. 

      Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' aka REEFER
MADNESS: 
      *a violent narcotic. 
      *acts of shocking violence. 
      *incurable insanity. 
      *soul-destroying effects. 
      *under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an
axe. 
      *more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs
(heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana! 

      Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film
concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN. 

      In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance.
The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did
not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they
believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew
up to be the parents of the baby-boomers. 

      On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that
outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee.
This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor
without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways and
Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the bill
would pass Congress. 

      Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on
behalf of the American Medical Association. He told the committee that the
reason the AMA had not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the
Association had just discovered that marihuana was hemp. 

      Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had been
reading about on Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The AMA
understood hemp to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold
over the last hundred years. 
      In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known
became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since. 

      Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most
violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31
years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In
the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the
exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would not
want to fight. 

      Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as
large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are
killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized
hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's energy needs that
are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80% of our oil and
gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to
soaring gas prices. 
       
      THE WONDER PLANT 
      Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic
chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees. Hemp paper
does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows quickly to
maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime. 

      ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen
plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not harm
the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very familiar with,
help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do great harm in the
future. The process to produce the vast array of natural (hempen) plastics
will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and other petrochemical companies have
done. Ecology does not fit in with the plans of the Oil Industry and the
political machine. Hemp products are safe and natural. 

      MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days when
the AMA supported hemp cures. 'Medical Marijuana' is given out legally to
only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced into a system that
relies on chemicals. Hemp is only healthy for the human body. 

      WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be
generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of protein
in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that clean your body of
cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not found anywhere else in
nature! Consuming hemp seeds is the best thing you could do for your body.
Eat uncooked hemp seeds. 

      CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong
and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from hemp, down to your
grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make hemp clothing;
usually 50% hemp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere. Instead, they are
almost underground. Superior hemp products are not allowed to advertise on
fascist television. Kentucky, once the top hemp producing state, made it
ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you imagine being thrown into jail for
wearing quality jeans? 

      The world is crazy...but that does not mean you have to join the
insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that includes your
children, the truth. Use hemp products. Eliminate the word 'marijuana.'
Realize the history that created it. Make it politically incorrect to say or
print the M-word. Fight against the propaganda (designed to favor the agenda
of the super rich) and the bullshit. Hemp must be utilized in the future. We
need a clean energy source to save our planet. INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP! 

      The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million dollars
a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar agencies. We
have all seen their commercials. Now, their motto is: 'It's more dangerous
than we thought.' Lies from the powerful corporations, that began with
Hearst, are still alive and well today. 

      The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a
joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest anti-hemp
commercials say: If you buy a joint...you are promoting TERRORISM! The new
enemy (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way THEY see fit. 

      There is only one enemy; the friendly people you pay your taxes to;
the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are killing
the world right in front of your eyes. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE
CAUSED BY TOBACCO. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL. 

      Ingesting THC, hemp's active agent, has a positive effect; relieving
asthma and glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by
chemotherapy. You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state of being.


      The hemp plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that hemp
is not like any other plant on this planet. One could conclude that it was
brought here for the benefit of humanity. Hemp is the ONLY plant where the
males appear one way and the females appear very different, physically! No
one ever speaks of males and females in regard to the plant kingdom because
plants do not show their sexes; except for hemp. To determine what sex a
certain, normal, Earthly plant is: You have to look internally, at its DNA.
A male blade of grass (physically) looks exactly like a female blade of
grass. The hemp plant has an intense sexuality. 

      HEMP IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!

 
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      And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with hunger in the land.
      -- Ezekiel 34/29



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